Six In The Morning: Oh Yeah, Brian’s Alive

1 REGINA’S OFFICIAL COMMUNITY PLAN Approved. Now let’s see how fast we can build expensive, unsustainable sprawl out to our infinite horizons.

2 CARS, HORSES AND TRAILERS Band leaders of Big Island Lake Cree Nation are being audited after allegations they spent money targeted for social assistance on themselves. See? White politicians aren’t the only ones embroiled in scandals. That’ll teach you to be so racist.

3 ROB FORD: “SUPER, SUPER, SUPER SORRY.” Toronto calamity Rob Ford apologizes, sort of, to Toronto Star reporter Daniel Dale. Dale served a libel notice against Ford last week after Ford insinuated Dale might be a pedophile. Ford also apologized for suggesting other city councillors were “corrupt” at yesterday’s gong show council meeting.

4 TURN ‘EM OVER Residential school abuse survivors — and we’re talking rape, being forced to eat vomit and torture in an electric chair — are in court in Toronto fighting to get police documents on a 1990s police investigation. They say their attempts to get information to use to get compensation are being thwarted by the federal government. The feds say there are privacy issues. Wah wah.

5 THE END IS NIGH Inept apocalypse predictor Harold Camping has passed away at 92. Camping once inspired an entire day of apocalypse-themed blogging on this website, and I thank him for that. Now that he’s dead I feel a little bad for calling him a sad, delusional, elderly lunatic. I mean, he was, but still.

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So this new “somerset” “neighbourhood”, and probably all others, is another poor joke regarding liveability and connectivity with the rest of the city. I understand that the city is run by realtors and developers and all, but what’s with the lack of road network and foresight? It is unbelievable how poorly Regina is laid out in terms of traveling from one part to the others, ON PURPOSE…. and then to continue to simply tack on more little impenetrable traps around each other? Just…. wow. It’s not good for pedestrians or buses, or even cars. Designed to encourage gridlock and idling and consumption of time and fuel.